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: the flesh of slain animals or humans
a multitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage—
T. B. Macaulay
T. B. Macaulay2
: great and usually bloody slaughter or injury (as in battle)
the carnage of war
Examples of carnage in a Sentence
Reporters described the highway accident as a scene of carnage.
the appalling carnage in that war-torn country requires that the outside world intervene
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Basically the carnage is all nonstop from this point on, a festival of killing in all kinds of nifty ways.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.
—Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Tyler, lost in rage in his Hyde form, kills his mother in the ensuing carnage.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Many more were maimed, and almost all the carnage was the direct and intended result of Iran’s nascent Axis.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Sep. 2025
Johnson’s dishonesty doesn’t even take into consideration the carnage from the homicides of yesteryear in the Windy City.
—Christopher Tremoglie, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
Tyler, lost in rage in his Hyde form, kills his mother in the ensuing carnage.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
Many more were maimed, and almost all the carnage was the direct and intended result of Iran’s nascent Axis.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for carnage
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“Carnage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/carnage. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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